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leaf and a single detached fruit. It is exactly matched by the specimen collected 
by Mangubat, cited above, which came from the same general region as the 
original. Unfortunately the specimens collected by Mangubat are poorly prepared, 
but I am able to add the following to the original imperfect description : 
Branches terete, light-gray, densely tomentose. Leaves 8 to 12 cm 
long, 4 to 8 cm wide, the nerves 3 or 4 on each side of the midrib, 
curved- ascending. Cymes lateral, 4 cm long or less, few-flowered, 
densely tomentose;. bracts narrowly obovate, about 1 cm long. Calyx 
obscurely 4-toothed, the teeth short, broad. Petals 4, about 9 mm long. 
Stamens 8, subequal ; anthers 5 mm long. 
The species is most closely allied to Medinilla lagunae Vidal but has quite 
differently shaped leaves. It differs from M. halconensis Merr., in its 4-merous 
flowers and more numerously nerved leaves, which are pubescent beneath only, 
while in M. halconensis they are pubescent on both surfaces. 
Medinilla cogniauxii sp. nov. 
Medinilla hracteata Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 8 (1891) 601, in part (Cuming 
1335, 11 87 ; Vidal). 
Differt M. bracteatae Blume foliis longioribus, inflorescentiis termina- 
libus, raeemosis, multo longioribus, usque ad 20 cm longis, simplicibus. 
A scandent or decumbent shrub 2 to 6 m high, the branches terete, 
slender, shining, glabrous, the branchlets densely stellate-plumose-to- 
mentose. Leaves membranaceous, elliptical-lanceolate, acuminate, base 
narrowed, abruptly rounded and narrowly cordate, 7 to 12 cm long, 2 to 5 
cm wide, glabrous above when mature, more or less stellate-tomentose 
on the nerves ivhen young, beneath densely stellate-plum ose-tomentose 
on the nerves and with scattered hairs on the lamina; nerves prominent 
beneath, two on each side of the midrib, the outer pair subbasal 
and extending to the middle of the leaf or above, the inner pair leaving 
the midrib some distance above the base and extending to the apex, rarely 
a third pair of short basal nerves present ; petioles densely tomentose, 
1 to 3 mm long. Racemes from the terminal axils only, 7 to 20 cm 
long, pendulous, slender, densely stellate-tomentose, the flowers usually 
arranged in whorls of threes, each node with three membranaceous, ovate, 
5 to 8 mm long, 5-nerved, persistent bracts, which are somewhat stellate- 
tomentose; pedicels about 4 mm long. Calyx 4 to 5 mm long, truncate, 
ovoid, densely hirsute, the stiff hairs ciliate. Petals 5, narrowly obovate, 
obtuse, about 9 mm long, 4.5 mm wide. Stamens 10, subequal; anthers 
3 mm long. Style 8 mm long. Each flower subtended by two per- 
sistent bracteoles, which are orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 7-nerved, mem- 
branaceous, about 12 mm long, somewhat tomentose. Fruit subglobose, 
setose, about 5 mm in diameter, enclosed by the persistent bracteoles. 
Luzon, Province of Batangas, Cuming 11/87, in Herb. Bur. Sci. Mindoro, 
Baco River, Merrill 1/035, March, 1905; McGregor 183, 200, April, 1905. 
A very characteristic species, confused by Cogniaux witli Medinilla hr act eat a 
Blume, which is a quite different species. In January of the present year I 
